16.7% —
Lower than 57% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 24.0%
- 2021: 16.7%
Share of people aged 15+ who did voluntary work for an organisation or group.
Flinton · Suburb / Locality
Community Participation in Flinton
How people contribute — volunteering, unpaid care and domestic work, and defence service.
One third of the population in Flinton provide unpaid childcare, a figure well above the national average. While family care is common here, other forms of community service and unpaid support are much less frequent than in other parts of the country.
Participation
Volunteering for organisations and groups.
About 16.7% of people volunteer, which is a little above the 14.1% recorded for both Queensland and Australia.
Unpaid care & work
Caring for others and unpaid domestic work.
Unpaid childcare is very common at 33.3%, far exceeding the national figure of 26.3%. However, no one in the area reports providing other unpaid care or doing 15 or more hours of housework a week, both of which are far below the national average.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 0.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid assistance to someone with a disability or due to old age.
33.3% —
Higher than 86% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 16.0%
- 2021: 33.3%
Share of people aged 15+ who provided unpaid child care.
0.0% —
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
- 2016: 40.0%
- 2021: 0.0%
Share of people aged 15+ who did 15 hours or more of unpaid domestic work in the week before the Census.
Defence service
People who served in the Australian Defence Force.
No one in Flinton has served in the Defence Force, which is well below the Queensland rate of 3.9%.
0.0%
Lower than 99% of suburb / locality areas.
Share of people aged 15+ who have ever served in the Australian Defence Force (currently or previously).
Sources
- Census of Population and Housing — Australian Bureau of Statistics, 2021 (CC BY 4.0).
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Australian Bureau of Statistics. (2021). Community Participation in Flinton [Census of Population and Housing]. CensusAtlas, used under CC BY 4.0. https://censusatlas.au/region/sal/SAL31055/flinton/topic/community